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From: ddb@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Darren Brierton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: MS-DOS logical drive labels
Keywords: MS-DOS, hard disks
Message-ID: <4806@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Mar 91 16:53:53 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Can anyone tell me how to change logical drive labels in MS-DOS 3.3
without erasing the data on the disks?  I'm under the impression that
FDISK can't do this.

My problem is that I have a 42MB hard disk with a 32MB primary partition
which is logical drive c and a 10MB extended partition which is logical
drive d.  I have now bought a 50MB Hard Card 2XL, and as this is a
*very* fast disk (9ms access time) I would like to use this as my drives
c and d to increase speed in booting up and loading applications etc.,
and to rename the drives on my old hard disk as e and f without having
to back up all the files on it and removing the primary partition with
FDISK.  Is this possible?

Any help greatly appreciated,

Darren.

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